UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Square things with

6 Black-eyed ___

10 Arrows in one’s quiver, perhaps

14 Breakfast food featuring a green spread

16 Cranny’s relative

17 Deserving to go viral, in slang

18 Small digits

19 Bless with oil 20 Conductor’s vehicle

22 Car or can imperfection

23 Holiday tune

25 Good name for a goulash lover?

28 Programming pioneer Lovelace

29 “Don’t break the rules!”

32 In a curious way

33 Slowly flow

34 Gas rating

38 “In God We Trust” and “semper fidelis”

40 Drummer Van Halen

41 Certain Arctic natives

44 Faux formal garments with short sleeves

47 ___ Tac mints

50 Caspian or Caribbean

51 Pacific or Atlantic

52 With

57-Across, “Today” co-anchor

53 Kama ___

55 Mannerly

57 See 52-Across

59 Frozen treat made with Nabisco cookies

62 “On top of the world” feeling

63 Frozen treat made with liquid nitrogen, or a hint to 14-, 29and 44-Across

64 Shoulder, as the burden

65 ERA, e.g . ... or an ER order

66 Wise guys, perhaps

DOWN

1 Wyndham hotel chain

2 Made square

3 Sagehens’ California college

4 Score perfectly on a test

5 (So boring!)

6 “___ favor”

7 Scarf down

8 Old car feature for smokers

9 “Sophie’s Choice” author

10 Against

11 Ambitious venture

12 One of the Stooges

13 Approves

15 Dorothy, to friends

21 Bottom-row PC key

23 Cow’s chew

24 Knee tear site: Abbr.

26 Tea brand

27 Western tribe for which a state is named

29 Over there, in verse

30 Tribute in verse

31 FAA overseer

34 Grains in healthy bars

35 You’re reading one

36 Black gold

37 Fire: Var.

38 Cambridge engineering sch.

39 Extra WNBA periods

41 “There’s that sound!”

42 “The Best Man” actress Long

43 Catering container

45.

46 Some young fish

47 Head honcho

48 Brainstorm

49 Loving touch

52 Pilot on the road, e.g.?

54 Ride-booking app

55 Greek letter hidden in “epsilon”

56 Sprints

57 Cold War spy org.

58 Cheer in Chiapas

60 Grp. that monitors water

61 Choose